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First Martian regolith samples: NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars

First Martian regolith samples: NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars

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Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill to collect the mission’s first regolith samples on December 2-6, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface. Unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile …

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover bottles up first dirt samples

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NASA’s most advanced robotic geologist to date has collected its first samples of shattered rock and dust from the Red Planet’s surface. The Rover of Perseverance drilled two of what scientists call regolith samples for free as it continues its mission to investigate geological processes and search for telltale evidence that life once existed on …

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Kodiak Butte Jezero Crater

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovers possible organic compounds in Mars crater rocks

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This enhanced color photo mosaic from the Perseverance Mastcam-Z rover shows a butte near Jezero Crater informally dubbed “Kodiak” by the rover team. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; edited by Jim Bell/ASU Rock samples from the Jezero crater analyzed by Nasa Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United …

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